Photo By Gail
Time never looked so playful as it does with the Ball Clock, a mid-century modern masterpiece designed by George Nelson in 1948. A true icon of atomic-age design, this whimsical wall clock ditches traditional numerals in favor of brightly colored wooden balls radiating from a central face, evoking both a burst of sunshine and the orbit of planets. It’s science, sculpture, and style — all rolled into one.
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Buckminster Fuller Invented This Rad Car!
Those of you that read this blog with regularity will know that most weekends, Geoffrey and I take what we call an “Urban Field Trip” so that we have an excuse to leave the house. This Past Sunday we visited the Buckminster Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum. I admit that I did not know much (i.e. practically anything) about Fuller before we decided to go see the exhibit. I had the vague feeling that Fuller was some kind of philosopher or spiritualist, so I did a little surfing on the Google before we hit the museum.
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